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May 28, 2006 - Recessed Meeting Page 616 Sheriff Riley reported 218 inmates were in the County Jail this date and 30 on transport. He stated the Annex would continue to be used after the completion of the Detention Center. Mr. Day stated a re-design of the main facility had occurred at the time the decision was made to build the Annex on this site. This re-design had reduced the number of beds from 576 to 480 with 96 beds to be located in the Annex. He said failure to build the Annex would delay the efforts in dealing with overcrowding by 18 months and would also result in a smaller number of beds available in the project. Commissioner Privette stated support for the use of Electronic House Arrest as a means to alleviate overcrowding in the jail. Chairman Carruth stated the Board had made the decision to build the Annex and Detention Center and had discussed the Electronic House Arrest and pre-trial release programs on several occasions. Pam Dubois, Deputy County Manager/Finance Director, reviewed two budget amendments. The first was for the GMP in the amount of $14,836,546.00 to be financed with Certificates of Participation authorized on May 15. The second amendment was in the amount of $750,200.00 to fund owner costs that would be incurred in building the Annex and the site work. These costs would be paid with COPs interest that had not been spent this year due to the delay in starting the project. The owner costs included the following: Traffic Impact Study-$18,500.00 (Engineering-Actual Cost); Cabling for Box Removal and Tunnel-$18,000.00 (Owner Construction); Relocation of Lines-$316,000.00 (Owner Construction); Miscellaneous Engineering-$50, 000.00 (Engineering) ; Testing Materials Air/water balancing-$175, 000.00 (Engineering); Owner cost for Construction Management Services: Bid Documents-$70, 000.00 (Construction Mgrs Reimburseables); Construction Documents-$30,000.00 (Construction Mgrs Reimburseables); Printing Cost-$7, 500.00 (Construction Mgrs Reimburseables); WSACC Fees-$50,000.00 (Owner Construction); City of Concord Water Connection Fees-$10, 200.00 (Owner Construction); and City of Concord Sewer Connection Fees-$5,000.00 (Owner Construction). Kelly Sifford, Community Development Manager, explained construction of the tunnel would require the relocation of the vault housing the Concord Telephone Company (CTC) telephone lines. Chairman Carruth called for a brief recess at 8:50 p.m. the meeting at 9:05 p.m. He reconvened Ms. Dubois reported a minor adjustment to the requested budget amendment. She stated the amount had been changed from $14,836,546.00 to $15 million with the difference to be used to pay issuance costs for the debt. vice Chairman Juba made the following motion: I move that the Board of Commissioners approve Amendment #1 to the contract for Construction Manager at Risk for the construction of the Cabarrus County Detention Center and Sheriff's Department between Cabarrus County and Turner Construction Co., which amendment is made pursuant to Article 7 of the Contract to set the guaranteed maximum price for construction of the site work, annex and tunnel, including the estimated cost of work as defined in the contract and the construction manager's fee as therein defined at $14,836,546.00, including the exposure holds totaling $300,000.00, and to set the date of substantial completion for this part of the work as July 18, 2007 and to authorize the County Manager and County Attorney to execute a contract amendment to such effecti and to approve a budget amendment(s) to fund the owner costs and the construction costs as follows: $ 750,200.00 owner costs per budget amendment; and $15,000,000.00 for construction of site work and annex and issuance costs for COPS per budget amendment. Chairman Carruth seconded the motion. commissioner Privette asked if recuse herself from voting. He stated conflict and asked to be recused on two vice Chairman Juba she had previously prior votes. was planning to cited a financial